Trends · data through September 2026

Grocery & Convenience trends in Albuquerque, NM

Iceflower tracks 244 stores from 179 grocery & convenience chains in Albuquerque, NM. Kelly Liquors grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Natural Grocers and Sam's Club.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
179
Tracked stores
244
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked grocery & convenience chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Kelly Liquors and Natural Grocers sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Kelly Liquors - +10.2%
2 Natural Grocers - +9.6%
3 Sam's Club ▲1 +9.0%
4 El Mezquite Market - +3.0%
5 Smith's Food and Drug Stores - +1.4%
6 Costco - -4.6%
7 Albertsons ▼1 -9.6%
8 Sprouts Farmers Market - -10.5%

Store footprint

Store map

244 tracked store locations in Albuquerque, NM, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 51 of the 244 stores (21%); 160 of the 179 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are farms, against 4% across New Mexico.

  • Supermarkets (44)
  • Other grocery stores (33)
  • Corner Stores & Bodegas (30)
  • Liquor Store (25)
  • Upscale & Natural Grocers (23)
  • Farm (13)
  • Food & Beverage Store (11)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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